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Article

13 Jun 2010

Author:
Christine Arena, Christian Science Monitor

Child porn too big for law enforcement? Microsoft steps in.

Child pornography is the Internet’s most severe social problem…Enter the world’s second biggest technology company. “We can help make a big dent,” [said] Microsoft SVP and General Counsel Brad Smith…In 2009, Microsoft donated a new technology to the NCMEC [National Center for Missing and Exploited Children]…Using a unique…technology…PhotoDNA finds hidden copies of the worst images of child sexual exploitation known today...Although…Yahoo and Google enforce content standards as a matter of practice, the manual and human-intensive processes they rely on to remove inappropriate posts are no match for the sheer volume of child porn...That is why…PhotoDNA…is so necessary.